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A Waste-Not World: toward a policy of right to subsist

How Things Are Here in America and the west, cash is king. Your consumption is expressed in terms of dollars, your budget is discussed in terms of dollars, your worth is measured in terms of dollars. If you spend less than a given amount for groceries each week, you're thrifty, good with money, possibly a skin-flint; if you spend more than a given amount, you may be careless, hoyty-toyty, or maybe discerning regarding the quality of the food you're willing to consume. The strength of your principles is measured by whether you put your money where your mouth is. Here in America and the west, the vast majority of the idle are poor. Those who have the least disposable income also have the most disposable time . They also eat the unhealthiest food (because corn and soy are the most heavily subsidized agricultural products on the market) and raise the most children , meaning more people going into distressed school systems, with habits of eating nutritionless food and expect